Dhankuta

The agitators have set fire in two government offices and vandalized three offices in protest of determining the capital as Biratnagar for the province number 1.
The agitators are in demonstration for the last 34 days demanding to make Dhankuta as a capital of province number 1. The agitation turned into violence after the Deuba ....

At least two demonstrators were injured in a clash with police after the agitators protested demanding to make Dhankuta as a capital of province number 1.
The clash started when the demonstrators attempted to padlock the regional administration office in Dhankuta municipality-6. The injured were 36 years old Jesij Shrestha and 34....

The dwellers of Dhankuta are agitated against the decision made by the government to make Biratnagar a capital of province number 1.
During the agitation the protesters have vandalized four vehicles on charge of defying the strike.
Similarly, the protestors have vandalized vehicle carrying mil....

Along with the approaching date of election, the political parties and candidates are busy on violating election code of conduct. The violating of election code of conduct is increasing in the district. The violation of code of conduct is more in rural area.
The political parties are found to be using posters against the code of conduct. In Maunabudhak Bazar, the left alliance and democratic al....

Police have arrested District In charge Madhav Gautam alias Akash Sharma of Nepal Communist Party on November 16 from Khalsa Chintang Sahidbhumi rural municipality along with other two cadres on charge of operating anti-election activities in the district.
He was operating an anti-election activity in the district and was arreste....

Police have arrested three cadres of Nepal Communist party led by Netra Bikram Chand from various places of Dhankuta on charge of operating anti-election activities.
The arrested were District member 50 years old Mohan Prasad Ojha, cadres Prem Kattel, 22 of Pakhribas Municipality-4, Prem Kattel,22 of the same place and 40 years o....

Eights polling centers of Dhankuta are categorized to be very sensitive regarding the upcoming HoR and state assembly election on November 26. Out of 153 polling centers eights are tagged as too sensitive by the district security committee.
Out of two constituencies of Dhankuta, four polling centers in constituency number 1 and f....

Police have arrested 24 years old Umesh Ramtel on July 26 on charge of raping a girl on July 23. The victim underwent health check up at District Hospital on a same day according to police.
Similarly, police have arrested 29 years old Jhalak Man Rai of Khalsa Chintang Sahidbhumi Village Council-2 on July 26 on charge of raping 66....

An unidentified group of people have exploded cylinder bomb in two different places of the district on June 26.
SP Sudeep Raj Bhandary of District Police Office said those two cylinder bombs were exploded in Sanghurugadhi Village council-6, Bhedetar and Kalbote near Mahabharat in the evening of June 26.
Police said that the bomb....

Seven polling centers of the district is tagged to be a very sensitive regarding the security issue according to election office of Dhankuta. According to the office, there are 42 sensitive and 94 normal polling centres in the district.
Those polling centres tagged as very sensitive do not have access of transportation, communication and other services according to the district administration o....

In Dhankuta, reconstruction and grant agreement has begun from April 10 after the two years of devastating quake. The grant agreement has begun from Dhankuta Municipality.
The agreement has commenced in presence of CDO Prem Prakash Uprety, Local Development Officer Purba Prasad Sapkota, Dhankuta Municipality chief Tirtha Prasad D....

A discussion program on Human Rights situation and issues of media personnel and Human Rights defenders has been organized by INSEC regional office of Biratnagar on January 3.
In the occasion, the incidents on human rights violations and atrocities documented during the year 2016 in eastern region was made public by INSEC documen....

The pre-review of Human Rights Year book- 2017 has been held in Dhankuta on December 7. The program was organized by Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC).
Speaking at the program, chief guest CDO Prem Prakash Uprety recommended including incidents of human rights violation not only from the district but from villages. He added ....

Police have registered a case against Suman Shrestha of Dhankuta Municipality-7 at District COurt o September 18 on charge of raping a 19-year old girl.
The victim had lodged a complaint against the accused on September 14 against the accused. He was arrested on September 15 by the police from his house and lodged a c....

Police have lodged a case against 40-years-old Jit bahadur Rasaili at District Court on August 30 on charge of raping a 15-year-old girl.
The case against the accused was lodged based on a complaint lodged by the victim’s mother at DPO n August 29 according to DSP Bimal Basnet of DPO.
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Kalpana Chapagain has urged Human Rights activists and journo to find the whereabouts of her husband Bhim Bahadur Chapagain,45 of Chanuwa VDC-1 who went missing since two months.
On August 14, through a press meet she said that her husband never came back after he went to a funeral procession on June 13 and urged activists and me....

Students of ninth standard at Triveni High School of Chuliban in Dhankuta Municipality-7 could not get text book due to the negligence of Janak Education Material Centre even after end of their quarterly exam.
The students said that they had appeared the exam without the text books. According to the principal Ishwori Prasad Adhik....

Children were used in a rally by District Coordination Council of Nepal Indigenous People Federation on August 8 against the covenant on Children Rights. Students studying at Hile High School were used in a rally on the occasion of 22nd world indigenous day in Hile bazaar of Dhankuta.
Principal Ramesh Bahadur Ghimire of Hile Hig....